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  • alcoholicorn
    51·
    6 months ago

    China’s HSR has an issue in that it doesn’t go to the city centers, you still have to take a metro or bus to get there.

    I can’t imagine how difficult it’s gonna be getting land for maglev. Shanghai’s maglev was supposed to connect the Hongqiao and Pudong airports, but they got NIMBY’d by property owners who wanted a bigger setback and used FUDD to organize protests.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      3·
      6 months ago

      Maglevs tend to have wheels that get deployed on approach, so I don’t think that’s a big issue. The property owners is likely a trickier problem to deal with, but even if you make it to the edge of the city and take public transit from there, that’s still pretty convenient.

      • alcoholicorn
        3·
        6 months ago

        Maglevs tend to have wheels that get deployed on approach, so I don’t think that’s a big issue.

        I don’t understand what this is addressing

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
          2·
          6 months ago

          Ih I misread your reply where you were talking about land, I thought you were talking about landing the maglev for some reason.

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      but they got NIMBY’d by property owners who wanted a bigger setback

      What kinda property owners? Do you happen to have a news link or some such? Were those landowners or what?

      • alcoholicorn
        1·
        6 months ago

        I can’t find any English-language papers covering the protests that did any actual journalism.

        There’s quite a few that covered the protests, but only in service of the typical “ccp bad, the people yearn for freedom” story, so they didn’t bother with such details.